ddeerreekk
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Hey everybody! A bit of a general question. My goal is to trigger some speedlights with my SLR to take portraits with my lights, on 35mm. I have all the equipment that I think I'd need to trigger the flashes, my main question is how I would get a proper exposure.
I'm a young photographer and am new to film, so some areas are a bit foreign to me. With my regular photo setup (shooting on a Canon 7D), I'd simply set up the flashes, plug in some good manual settings, shoot some photos and adjust the camera / flash outputs as neccessary from looking at the LCD. Obviously film doesn't have this ability. How can I measure the light well enough to shoot this way and get a good ballpark exposure?
I figure the two options will be to either get some sort of light meter ($$$ - hopefully not), or shoot the photos first with my DSLR to get the look I want, and then transfer those settings over to the SLR. Would that work? Are the two formats similar enough to compare? Ie. if I'm shooting f/4, 1/250th at ISO 100 on my SLR, does that mean that I could get a similar exposure on my film if I shot f/4, 1/250th on 100ISO filmstock? If the digital ISO don't correllate that well with film, is there some sort of conversion chart I could use?
Anyway, I'll stop talking now, I'm sure you get the point of what I'm after, but don't hestitate to ask for clarification.
SPECS:
Canon 7D DSLR
Minolta X-700 SLR
Paul C. Buff Cybersyncs (similar to pocket wizards)
Lumopro Speedlights
I'm a young photographer and am new to film, so some areas are a bit foreign to me. With my regular photo setup (shooting on a Canon 7D), I'd simply set up the flashes, plug in some good manual settings, shoot some photos and adjust the camera / flash outputs as neccessary from looking at the LCD. Obviously film doesn't have this ability. How can I measure the light well enough to shoot this way and get a good ballpark exposure?
I figure the two options will be to either get some sort of light meter ($$$ - hopefully not), or shoot the photos first with my DSLR to get the look I want, and then transfer those settings over to the SLR. Would that work? Are the two formats similar enough to compare? Ie. if I'm shooting f/4, 1/250th at ISO 100 on my SLR, does that mean that I could get a similar exposure on my film if I shot f/4, 1/250th on 100ISO filmstock? If the digital ISO don't correllate that well with film, is there some sort of conversion chart I could use?
Anyway, I'll stop talking now, I'm sure you get the point of what I'm after, but don't hestitate to ask for clarification.
SPECS:
Canon 7D DSLR
Minolta X-700 SLR
Paul C. Buff Cybersyncs (similar to pocket wizards)
Lumopro Speedlights